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[cool][font "Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"][black][size 1][#0000ff]Silly, silly, silly. TubeBabe and I launched at Rock Cliffs about 7:30 this morning. Air temp 14 degrees. Water temp 37. Warmed up a little out in the lake. Skim ice in the shallows near the inlet. Ice around the edges of the water at the ramp.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Light breeze. Some vapor mist coming off the lake early. No surface action visible in the cold areas near the inlets. We caught quite a few fish shallow last week but they seemed to have moved out of the colder water. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Worked out into deeper water where surface temps were about 44. Not a bump on any of the spinners or other lures that had produced last week. Bank tanglers were hopping up and down to keep warm since they weren't getting anything either.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Started seeing fish suspended at mid depth in 20 feet of water. Moved around, bottom bouncing a jig until I got into some bottom blips. Bang, bang. Two quick planter bows. Kept moving around and changing jigs. Finally found an area with quite a few fish from mid depth down to the bottom. Some of them had their mouths open. Heavy head chartreuse Roadrunners tipped with worm or perch got lots of whacks. Some on the drop and others on the retrieve back up. Most were close to the bottom.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]TubeBabe and I exercised quite a few rainbows, up to about 16". Most of them came in water from 28 to 32 feet deep. I lost several larger fish that came unbuttoned on the way to the surface, or just as I was guiding them toward the net. A couple of nice rainbows still swim, thanks to my conservation releases. I did manage to finesse one pretty 16" brown. Looked like the smaller spawned out sister of the 24"er I caught there last week.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Several other watercraft launched to keep us company and lend immoral support. Only saw one other fish caught, by a kid fishing with bait off an anchored boat. Nothing I could see for the fly flingers or three guys loaded into a small FolBoat that looked big enough for only two...good they were wearing PFDs. Also saw nothing happening for trollers or bank tanglers all day.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Ice in the guides a good part of the morning, but nice and sunny. Never more than a light breeze, but that breeze went right through ya. Still cool when we left at 2.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We brought home a few of the larger silver bows with the pink meat. One of them had a six inch plastic worm in its gut when I filleted it. So much for using the tiny stuff for those guys. I caught several on an experimental "white perch" pattern Roadrunner. Looked a lot like the little perchettes that some of the trout are munching on.[/#0000ff]


(This post was [url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?do=post_editlog;post=290828;"][#000000]edited[/#000000][/url] by TubeDude on Nov 24, 2006, 5:18 PM)
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[#505000]Damn! What's the matter with you?!?!?! Didn't your mother ever tell you it's too cold to tube this time of year!?!?! You'll catch your death!!! [][/#505000]
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[cool][#0000ff]My Mama has passed on to the place of peaceful warmer streams and lakes. But, it was she who taught me to swim in the icy cold waters of Idaho winters. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The cold water swimming wasn't so bad. The tough part was getting out of that bag full of rocks. Glad she tied it with a "granny" knot.[/#0000ff]
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[cool][#0000ff]The tough part was getting out of that bag full of rocks. Glad she tied it with a "granny" knot.[/#0000ff] [/reply]

Good one, TD.

I discovered last year (encouraged by insane frequenters of this board) that tubing in the cold is really not all that bad - if you go prepared. Fishing is much slower than in summer but that is a whole lot better than sitting at home - and you often get the place all to yourself.

Nice pics.

I hoped to pursue some of those Golden Rainbows today. Had the trip all planned last week. Then on Saturday evening I ate something that didn't agree. By Sunday morning I was miserable, having upchucked all night. By Sunday evening I went to the hospital with a case of food poisoning. I'll spare the rest of the details out of consideration for weaker stomachs (mine included at this point.) Suffice it to say that I wish I could have gone fishing instead. Definitely an experience I hope never to repeat. Actually, at the moment, sitting next to the fire is a good thing.

z~
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[size 1] Then on Saturday evening I ate something that didn't agree. By Sunday morning I was miserable, having upchucked all night. By Sunday evening I went to the hospital with a case of food poisoning. [/size]
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[size 1]OOOOhh what was it that you ate? My wife's mom and her aunt had food poisoning just before thanksgiving. I didn't get the clear picture on how they got it. Was it from undercooked foods?[/size]
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